Serato Scratch Live Release Date

Posted : admin On 03.01.2021

Serato is on a release spree today, based around the new Serato Remote app, but importantly adding a few cool things into the package as well. Landmark release Scratch Live 2.5 sees Serato Remote compatibility, as well as Pioneer CDJ-2000Nexus HID plug and play, and a smidgeon of free Loopmasters stuff. But the biggie for a lot of people (namely the mapping types out there) is the new MIDI out lighting ability.

As ever, the extensive verbiage from Serato HQ:

15th July 2013

For Immediate Release

Scratch Live is a vinyl emulation software application created by New Zealand based Serato Audio Research, distributed by and licensed exclusively to Rane Corporation. Serato was first known for its Pro Tools plug-in, Pitch N Time, which was sold predominantly to the film industry. Scratch Live 2.5.0 Note: Support for Mac OS X 10.5.8 has been dropped in Scratch Live 2.5. IMPORTANT: Please read this known issue before updating to Scratch Live 2.5 Rane Sixty.

SERATO ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF SERATO SCRATCH LIVE 2.5

Serato is pleased to announce the release of Serato Scratch Live 2.5, the latest free software update for Serato Scratch Live DJs.

Serato Scratch Live 2.5 comes loaded with a bunch of key new features including: Support for Serato Remote, free Loopmasters sample content, plug-and-play support for Pioneer CDJ-2000nexus and MIDI Output Lighting.

Sam Gribben, CEO of Serato, says: “For nearly ten years, Scratch Live has set the standard for professional DJs, and we’re very excited about what version 2.5 brings. With this latest version, DJs can now use Serato Remote, our first iPad® App. Whether you’re using turntables, CDJs, or a more customized setup, Serato Remote is the perfect companion to your rig. We’re also very happy to be adding support for the hugely popular CDJ-2000nexus, and providing a fresh selection of audio content for the SP-6. The new MIDI Output Lighting feature means you can now get a lot more from your midi controllers, and we expect to see a lot of community involvement in building custom presets. As always, we’ve put a lot of work into stability and performance with this release, and with a number of substantial improvements, this will be the most reliable version of Scratch Live ever.”

Key new features of Scratch Live 2.5

Support for Serato Remote

  • Serato’s first official App for iPad. Available now from the App StoreSM for USD19.99.
  • Designed to compliment an existing Scratch Live setup, Serato Remote will connect seamlessly to your Serato laptop software and work with all supported Scratch Live hardware.
  • Serato Remote lets you see and perform all of your favorite Scratch Live functions without needing to touch your laptop. Control Cue Points, Loops and Samples. Load tracks and manipulate FX in ways that weren’t previously possible. See Serato’s famous Virtual Decks and Track Overviews so you can focus on the crowd and free yourself from your laptop.
  • Designed with real world performance in mind, using big easy to hit buttons focusing on the most important performance features.
  • Have control at your fingertips and enhance your Scratch Live performance. Serato Remote can be connected wirelessly freeing you to move around the stage or connected over USB for ultra low latency.
  • To watch Rui from Serato use Serato Remote with Scratch Live 2.5, and for more information visit www.serato.com/remote

FREE Loopmasters Sample Content

  • Serato have teamed up with Loopmasters to pull a range of samples from their immense and high quality catalogue of sound-wares.
  • Get 24 of the best Beats, Hits, Loops and Sweeps FREE to you when you download Scratch Live 2.5.
  • Simple installation. The Loopmasters sample content installer is included in the Scratch Live download and will install straight to your Serato library as a crate. Get all the information here.

Pioneer CDJ-2000nexus plug-and-play support

  • With Scratch Live 2.5 you can throw away your control CDs and connect your CDJ-2000nexus directly to your laptop.
  • Tightly mapped software controls give you low latency control over performance features in Scratch Live.
  • Control your Scratch Live library with your CDJ-2000nexus. See full color album artwork, waveform, cue/loop points and other important track information on the CDJ-2000nexus color display.

MIDI Output Lighting

  • MIDI Output Lighting now enables the LEDs on your MIDI controller to light up when used with Scratch Live.
  • We’ve teamed up with our hardware partners to provide you with some presets for some of the coolest controllers out there. Grab them at www.serato.com/scratchlive/midi-presets
  • Read this blog post for information on how to get the presets.

Scratch Live 2.5 Bug Fixes

Alongside these key features Scratch Live 2.5 also includes bug fixes to continue the unparalleled level of stability and performance that Serato software is renown for.

Some examples of the bug fixes are:

  • Mixtape .als recordings now work with Ableton Live 9.
  • Fixed a bug where the beatgrid lock wasn’t being saved and loaded to/from the file; it was only being saved to the database.
  • The Sixty-Eight record source is now correctly loaded from preferences.
  • Fixed a bug where the CDJ-350 was sending both MIDI and HID messages, which meant it, could possibly fire two different Scratch Live events at the same time.
  • Fixed a bug where the DJFX deck assignments wouldn’t save to preferences if going from being ‘on’ initially, to ‘off’.

For a full list of bug fixes see the Scratch Live 2.5 Release Notes.

Scratch Live 2.5 is a free software update available now from www.serato.com/scratchlive/downloads

One by one:

Serato Remote: Covered extensively here and here.

Loopmasters content: A tiny sampling of Loopmasters extensive repertoire. I had 60 seconds of pad bashing fun with the supplied 808 sounds in the SP-6. Serato will have to go a considerable way to match the volume of audio that NI give away with Traktor, but it’s a start.

Pioneer CDJ-2000Nexus: For Pioneer owners and users in the clubs, this is a biggie. HID with CDJs was previously the stronghold of Traktor, but now thanks to the opened up 2 way communication with the Serato architecture, you can now use CDJs and Scratch Live without control CDs. This means full and complete 2 way information exchange, including album art and those all import waveforms. The only caveat in all this is no sync buttons, because Serato has still to add this function.

MIDI Out lights: While Scratch Live has boasted point-and-click MIDI learn for a very long time, it always felt a little unfinished, because unless support was hard coded in the software, the lights stayed off. But with MIDI out, you should be able to map you favourite lumps of controller and get some important visual feedback. I tried a little this morning and got some lights on my F1, but can’t see how to get RGB feedback going just yet. And the lights on the Behringer CMD Micro were on, but unaffected by MIDI out. I’m sure that’s more of a matter of playing a little more to fully understand what’s going on.

So the Serato Remote is nothing short of excellent, the Loopmasters content is a bit meh, the CDJ Nexus stuff is a massively important move that will help fend off Native’s attack on the booth, and the MIDI out couldn’t have been more overdue or more welcome. As well as some bug fixes, I’d say that Serato Scratch Live 2.5 is an excellent and free landmark upgrade. One last thing – for Mac users, OS X 10.5.8 is not longer supported. Time to upgrade your OS, if your hardware allows it of course.

Serato Scratch Live Release Date

Go download it today.

It’s been a good while since the spawn of Serato and Ableton‘s partnership has been given the spotlight. But this latest update to Serato Scratch Live is all about adding The Bridge‘s MixTape functionality to Rane‘s Sixty-One and Sixty-Two mixers, as well as turning the Sixty-Two into a MIDI beast of epic proportions.

Serato Scratch Live 2.5

The official and complete word from Serato Towers:

Serato Dj

What’s New in 2.4.2

Features

  • Added Mixtape support for the Rane Sixty-One and Sixty-Two:
    Record your Serato DJ performance as an Ableton Live Set, complete with song placement and fader movements. Then use Live’s collection of effects, instruments and production tools to edit, enhance and polish your mix. Note: Mixtape requires The Bridge
  • Multi-channel layer support for the Sixty-Two:
    MIDI mapping is now possible for all MIDI control/note values for the 2nd to 16th channel layers of the Sixty-One and Sixty-Two. This requires the latest firmware updates. Get more information on how to use the Multi-channel MIDI layers for the Sixty-Two.

Bug fixes

Playback Fixes
  • Fixed SP-6 bug where, when selecting loop start positions, the white playhead will move to the beginning of the selected start loop.
  • Fixed SP-6 bug where, when hot plugging, the selected loop slot will not reset to loop 1 if it was previously set to loop 2, 3 etc.
  • Re-instated instant doubling always occurring when drag dropping between decks and SP-6 slots, even when the ‘Instant Doubling’ option is disabled.
  • Fixed bug where the offline player was sometimes not in auto-play mode.
  • The offline player and the left deck are no longer ‘on’ when Scratch Live is launched.
Library fixes
  • Improved iTunes XML importing.

This is to address the issue where iTunes library importing would fail when the library contained non utf-8 encoded strings. These formatting errors are an issue with iTunes library exporting.

  • iTunes folders are collapsed on startup. Note that collapse state for them is not saved to preferences.
  • The iTunes “Grouping” attribute is now loaded from the iTunes library.
File writing fixes
  • Fixed an mpeg4 tag writing bug where the track number was being saved to the year tag.
  • Fixed track number write bug where for track x of y, where x is the track number and y is the total number of tracks for the album, y was being deleted. This affected mpeg4 files.
  • Fixed a bug where .wav file tags couldn’t be read or written to properly because of non-wide aligned chunks. A symptom is overviews always being rebuilt. Note that these files are technically corrupt and will therefore not be able to be analysed.
  • Fixed bug where is was not possible delete the year tag of a track.
  • Fixed bug where, on first track load for a file that has an .xml and .ovb meta data (located in _Serato_/Metadata), the overview would be rebuilt.
  • Fixed bug where tracks with .xml metadata would always do a tag write after they are used for the first time in a Scratch Live session.
  • Fixed bug where if there is a non-ascii character in the album field of an mpeg4 file, then incorrect characters could be saved to that field when the file is tag edited (evident upon track load).
  • Fixed bug where the ‘total number of discs’ meta data in an mpeg4 file was being incorrectly written to.
  • Autogain info can now be saved/loaded to/from OGG files.
Hardware related fixes
  • Fixed a Sixty-Two bug where instant doubling could still occur when the track scroll knob is turned during the double click.
  • Fixed a Sixty-Two bug where, when using the track scroll knob, it was not possible to rapidly go: load->scroll->load; some of the track loads would be missed.
  • When enabling DJ FX flex fx sending, all the channel/deck mappings are now turned off as a means of ensuring that audio reactive video is turned off when a user changes from a non-flex-fx capable device to a flexfx capable device (i.e. switching from an SL 2 to a Sixty-Two).
  • Fixed a Sixty-Two bug where the Sixty-Two’s SP-6 trigger button lights still flashed if the SP-6 panel is closed and the play head reaches the end of the track.
  • The Sixty-One and Sixty-Two effect sliders in Setup->Hardware->Effects are now midi mappable.
  • The Sixty-Two’s recording option now defaults to Mix and not PGM 1.
  • Added midi mapping ability for a Sixty-One joystick press.
GUI fixes and changes
  • Fixed bug where the UI bar of SSL would still appear on a secondary monitor (when the secondary monitor is above your main monitor).
  • Fixed bug where, on startup, the UI bar would be visible, even though SSL starts in fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed bug where, if the window is restored, dragged so that the centre of the window is outside the bounds of the display, then maximised again, the OS X Menu bar would be visible and obscure the Scratch Live window mode controls.
  • The recording widget’s time area now has the colon and dot visible again.
Serato Video related fixes
  • It’s now possible to midi map two midi knobs/sliders to the Serato Video faders. A standard midi mapping will adhere to the ‘link’ state of the Serato Video fader and a ctrl+shift mapped slider will disregard the ‘link’ state.

This benefits DJs who wish to keep their MIDI capable mixer’s faders un-linked from Serato Video sometimes, but still wish to control Serato Video’s faders with another midi controller.

This means you can now use third party mixers to fade video and audio at the same time, but also independently, just the same way as you can with Rane mixers.

  • The Serato Video up fader and cross faders can be shift+ctrl midi mapped so that they adhere to the hardware link settings. A standard midi mapping to these faders will ignore the hardware link states.
  • Fixed bug where the mouse/midi/GUI auto cross fader control would not work if fader-link and cue-link was enabled at the same time.
  • Fixed bug where, when the Serato Video cue-link button is enabled, the left/right GUI auto cross fade buttons were not working.
  • Fixed a bug where the TTM 57SL mapping to the Serato Video auto cross fade control was not working correctly.
  • Fixed bug where midi mapping was not possible with some text and image effect controls.
  • It should be possible to turn audio effects off now via the Setup > Serato Video > Effects options.
Other fixes
  • Fixed the DJ FX bug where deck assignment settings were not being loaded on startup.

Sixty-One firmware release notes (1.12)

Changes since 1.04
  • Fixed bug where control panel is loaded with incorrect parameter values.
  • Modified Magnetic Fader curve.
  • Added Analog Insert Sensitivity Parameter.
Sixty-Two firmware release notes (1.17)
  • Added MIDI Control Layer functionality.
  • Added live FlexFX Effect Parameter adjustment from the control surface.
  • Added External Insert Sensitivity Parameter.
  • Added option to disable automatic lighting of LEDs.
  • Added support for smarter and easier user MIDI LED lighting.
  • Added support for relaying MIDI Real Time Messages between USB ports.
  • Added handling of multiple MIDI channels for MIDI messages sent to device.
  • Modified Magnetic Fader curve.
  • Fixed undesirable flanging of Echo effect due to fluctuations in tracked BPM.
  • Fixed bug in Low Cut Echo so that first reflection is filtered.
  • Fixed bug where control panel is loaded with incorrect parameter values.

Change list for ASIO and Core Audio drivers

Sixty-Two 1.1.0f2
  • Supports MIDI layers. Removed MIDI channel assignment from driver. The mixer processes MIDI channels based on the MIDI layer.
  • Added Analog (External) Sensitivity Control. The +4dBu setting is the normal setting, use the -10dBV setting for external devices with low output voltage (2.0Vrms or lower).
  • Added User Button Lighting Control. Enable this option when you want to light button LEDs with MIDI note changes (disables the mixer from providing the momentary button LED flash).
  • Passes all MIDI Real-Time messages to/from MIDI system (such as START/STOP/CONTINUE). These are enabled/disabled with the MIDI clock options.
  • Firmware 1.17 embedded for firmware update.
Sixty-One 1.1.0f1
  • Added Analog (External) Sensitivity Control. The +4dBu setting is the normal setting, use the -10dBV setting for external devices with low output voltage (2.0Vrms or lower).
  • Firmware 1.12 embedded for firmware update.

Serato Scratch Live Release Date 2016

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Running more than one version of Scratch Live

Installing this version will by default overwrite any previous version you had installed, however it is easy to have more than one version of Scratch Live installed if you wish.

Serato Scratch Live Update

If you have an important gig coming up, you might like to stick with the version you know until you are comfortable with this version. Here’s how to do it:
Windows Users

Serato Scratch Live Latest Version

Before installing, find the Scratch Live executable (by default it is in C:Program filesSeratoScratchLIVE, and rename it. It makes sense to name it in a way that suggests which version of Scratch Live it is. For example, if you’re renaming Scratch Live 1.9.2 call it Scratch Live 1.9.2.exe. When you install the new version, the old executable will not be deleted, and you can choose which you want to run by going into that folder and double clicking on the appropriate executable.

Mac users

Before installing, rename the existing application file as above (eg. Scratch Live 1.9.2) – you have to be admin to rename it. (If you aren’t admin, you can copy it to another location, and then rename it.)

Backing up your data

Before you make any changes to your Scratch Live setup, including installing a new version, as a general rule we highly recommend that you backup your data and your music files. The easiest way to backup your data is to simply copy your Scratch Live folder to another location on the drive:

  • For the drive that contains “My Documents” (or your Home drive on Mac), just copy the Scratch Live folder which is in “My DocumentsMy Music” to another location on this drive. Alternatively make a copy of the folder where it already is and rename it by adding the date to the folder name so you know what’s in the backup.
  • To back up the database and crates from an external drive, copy the _ScratchLive_ folder (which is in the root of the drive) into another folder on the same drive.

Serato Scratch Live Release Date Free

So The Bridge isn’t over after all (real heads know what I did there). Of all The Bridge’s features, I personally find MixTape to be of most interest. I hold out hope that one day, it’ll reach ITCH controllers, but for now these mixers are lucky enough to get some love. And we’ll check it out when we get them in for review. Not long now.